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'''Dr. Samad Hussain''' is a Professor of Computer Science and the Head of the Center for Language Engineering at Pakistan's University of Engineering and Technology. His participation at ICANN involves his membership with the [[SSAC]] and his participation on the [[Whois]] review team.<ref>ICANN40 Interview</ref>
'''Dr. Samad Hussain''' is a Professor of Computer Science and the Head of the Center for Language Engineering at Pakistan's University of Engineering and Technology. His participation at ICANN involves his membership with the [[SSAC]] and his participation on the [[Whois]] review team.<ref>ICANN40 Interview</ref>
Dr. Hussain was presented with the Dr. M. N. Azam prize for Computer Science by the Pakistan Academy of Sciences in 2002.<ref>[http://www.panl10n.net/english/trainers%5B2%5D.htm Panl10n.net]</ref>
==Specialization==
==Specialization==
His area of expertise includes Speech and Natural Language Processing with special reference to Urdu, Speech Acoustics, Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Font Development.<ref>[http://www.crulp.org/information/staff/info.php?sid=3 Crulp.org]</ref>. Dr. Hussain has been leading a 30 person development team working on Urdu Machine Translation, and text-to-speech and lexicon systems through a project funded by Pakistan's E-Government Directorate. He is also aiding with [[Microsoft]]'s projects on Urdu Spell-Checkers and Urdu Terminology Translation.
His area of expertise includes Speech and Natural Language Processing with special reference to Urdu, Speech Acoustics, Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Font Development.<ref>[http://www.crulp.org/information/staff/info.php?sid=3 Crulp.org]</ref>. Dr. Hussain has been leading a 30 person development team working on Urdu Machine Translation, and text-to-speech and lexicon systems through a project funded by Pakistan's E-Government Directorate. He is also aiding with [[Microsoft]]'s projects on Urdu Spell-Checkers and Urdu Terminology Translation.